Senior Test Automation Engineer for NATO with security clearance

Remote | NATO Secret Clearance Required | Occasional Travel to The Hague

We are supporting NATO in the continued development and validation of NIRIS (Networked Interoperable Real-Time Information Services), a critical interoperability platform used within multinational defence environments.

We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer who combines manual testing expertise, automation skills, API testing experience, and strong quality assurance practices.

This role will focus on testing, validation, automation, interoperability verification, and release readiness activities within a modern Agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain test cases and test scenarios

• Execute functional, integration, regression, system, and release testing

• Develop and maintain automated test suites

• Verify REST APIs, messaging interfaces, and interoperability scenarios

• Analyze defects and support root cause investigations

• Create test plans, execution reports, and release verification documentation

• Support CI/CD testing activities

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint planning

• Contribute to software quality improvements and testing best practices

• Support interoperability events and validation exercises

Required Experience

• 5+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience

• 3+ years designing and executing manual test cases

• 2+ years of test automation experience

• Experience testing:

  • REST APIs

  • Messaging systems

  • Distributed systems

  • Integration interfaces

• Experience with at least one automation framework:

  • Robot Framework

  • Selenium

  • Playwright

  • Cypress

  • Cucumber

  • Gauge

• Experience with:

  • Jira

  • GitLab

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Test management tools

• Experience with scripting or programming:

  • Python

  • Java

  • Bash

  • Ansible

• Experience with Docker or virtualized environments

• Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows and Linux environments

Nice to Have

• Defence or NATO experience

• Tactical Data Links

• Link 16

• Link 22

• JREAP

• OTH-Gold

• VMF

• CESMO

• ISTQB certification

• TMap certification

Project Details

• Remote delivery

• NATO Secret clearance required

• Agile/Scrum environment

• Occasional travel to NCIA The Hague

• Opportunity to support interoperability and multinational defence systems

Why This Role Is Interesting

This is not a traditional QA role. The assignment combines automation, API testing, interoperability testing, release validation, distributed systems, and defence-related software platforms. The engineer will directly contribute to software used in multinational operational environments.